npx create-react-app results in unexpected token '.'

Question

I am trying to use ' npx create-react-app my_demo_project ' but it results in an error specifying "Unexpected token" .

Attempted Solution

Attempted to resolve the issue by following one of the suggested solution in Unexpected token '.' when run create-react-app however there was no issue with my debuglog.js file

Answer 1

Resolved this issue by following the following steps

1. Update nvm version to v1.1.10 ( https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows/releases )
2. npm uninstall 18.12.1
3. npm install 18.12.1